SHRM Hit With an $11.5M Reckoning — And ChatGPT Recaps Our Year in HR

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The episode discusses SHRM's $11.5 million reckoning and features a recap of the year in HR using ChatGPT.

Send us Fan Mail It’s been quite a year in HR… so naturally, we decided to let ChatGPT weigh in. But before we get there, we start with a story that’s a little more serious (and a lot more expensive): SHRM and an $11.5 million reckoning that raises some uncomfortable questions about leadership, accountability, and how things can go sideways even at the top of the HR world. Then, because we like to balance chaos with… slightly different chaos, we turn things over to AI. Yes, really. We asked C...

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Hosts: Warren Workman, CeeCee

Topics covered

• HR issues
• leadership accountability
• AI in HR
• ChatGPT
• SHRM news
• year in review

Keywords

• SHRM
• ChatGPT
• HR leadership
• accountability
• AI
• year in review
• human resources

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Organizations: SHRM

Products: ChatGPT

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